Town Board - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody. It's Wednesday, August 26, 2026. The time is 6.30 p.m. I'd like to call this town board regular meeting to order with asking everybody to please rise for the pledge to the flag. At this time, are there any public comments and or questions on agenda items only? Anybody has a question or a comment to make on an agenda item only, please approach the podium. Seeing nobody approached the podium, we'll move on. At this time, I'll make a motion to open a public hearing on proposed 2027 Cricket Hill Drainage District Assessment.

So moved.

Second. Motion made and seconded by myself and Councilman Holmes and Malouda to open the public hearing for the Cricket Hill Drainage District Assessment. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Public hearing is open. If there's anybody from the public who'd like to come up and speak on this right now. This is something we have to go through each and every year, the drainage district. It's just something we have to go through.

You may want to keep it open. I don't know if anybody's looked to see if there's any improvements that need to be made at this point yet.

Any other further discussion? All right. I move that we keep this public hearing open until next meeting, at which time, if there's no other comments, we'll close it that night. Do I have a second?

Second.

What's made a second to keep this public hearing on the cricket Hill drainage district open until September's meeting regular meeting all in favor aye aye and you post. At this time, I'll make a motion to open another public hearing on proposed 2027 Mills drainage district assessment of a second. Motion made by myself, seconded by Deputy Supervisor Murphy to open a public hearing for the 2027 Mills Drainage District Assessment. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Public hearing is open. Anybody in the public wish to speak on this one? Seeing nobody approach the podium, I'll do the same. I'll make a motion to keep this meeting open until next month's meeting. Do I have a second?

Second.

Motion made and seconded to keep this public hearing open until September's regular meeting. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried. At this time, I'll make another motion to open a public hearing on proposed local law number two of 2026, exemption for permanently and totally disabled military veterans. Do I have a second? Second. Motion made and seconded by myself and seconded by Councilwoman Jackson. to open a public hearing on a proposed local law, number two, 2026 exemption for permanently and totally disabled military veterans. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Public hearing is open. Anybody in the public wishing to come and speak on this or ask a question or make a comment, please approach the podium. What I will say is this is a law that was brought and approved and signed into law in February, early March time by the state. This is for 100% disabled veterans. It does take effect for the 2027 assessment, right? Correct. So we do have a proposed local law here. We do have a public hearing that is open at this time. Appropriate to read this suggested law, Tom? That's fine. So what we're putting forward, Tommy sent me this today. I shared it with all of you. You have a copy of it. Town of Dover local law number 1, 2026, a local law to enact section 131-8C of Article 5, alternative veterans exemptions of the Dover Town Code regarding property tax exemptions for seriously disabled veterans pursuant to New York real property law 458-A. Section 1, legislative intent. It is the intent of the town board of the town of Dover to provide an exemption from town taxation to the primary residence of a seriously disabled veteran as those items are defined in New York Real Property Tax Law 458-A. Section 2, authority. This local law is adopted pursuant to New York Constitution Article 9, New York Town Law and New York Municipal Home Rule. Section 3, Taxation, Alternative Veterans Exemption. Section 131-8C of Article 5, Taxation, Alternative Veterans Exemption of the Town of Dover Town Code regarding property tax exemption for seriously disabled veterans pursuant to New York real property law 458-A is enacted to read as follows. Chapter 131-8, Taxation, Alternative Veterans Exemption. 131-8, Section C, Primary Residence of Any Seriously Disabled Veteran. The primary residence of a seriously disabled veteran, as those terms are defined in New York Real Property Tax Tax Law 458-A, shall be exempt from town, taxation, and special district charges. assessments and special ad volarum levies in accord with and subject to the requirements of new york real property tax law 458-a section 4 effective date this local wall should this local law should take effect immediately upon adoption So that's what we're presenting. That's what we're going to be looking at. That's what we're going to put in place once the public hearing process is done. And we will make a vote, roll call vote next, I say next month. We'll leave it open just like the others, Tom.

Yeah, and then we could, the board could take action at next month's meeting. We could... Look to adopt it, do a quick secret determination and adopt the local law if the board chooses to. And just so the board knows, Under the requirements of the New York state law, the veteran must be considered by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled as a result of military service as evidenced by a letter, official form or other documents sent to such veteran from such department that specifically states such veteran is considered to be permanently and totally disabled as a result of such service. There's a process that the veteran will have to follow and submit adequate proof. But this is a way now that this law has been passed where towns if they opt in could

help the veteran population who were deemed to be uh permanently disabled due to their service to this country okay and it the disability has to come while in action or while in service or in correct there's a bunch of criteria that it's on you know spelled out our assessor has done a study um there are there are there are there is a number within the town that would that we feel would qualify but they have to go through the process already or anyway and

I know the town board understands this. The town only has jurisdiction over the town tax portion of the exemption. The school has to do another thing. The county, they each have to opt in if they chose to do so. Correct.

Any veteran that has any kind of award actually gets a letter from the VA stating such award and the parameters on it.

Meaning the disability?

Meaning disability rating. So if they're 100% disability, they would have that 100% disability rating award. So any veteran knows that.

I mean, this was brought to this board probably over a year ago, right? And we were advised by... the Director of Veterans Affairs, Mr. Roach, last year that to hold off because he knew a change was coming. I don't know if you all remember that. But a change was coming. He knew it was coming. They did rewrite the law. It was presented once again both in the Assembly and the Senate. I believe it has to go through both in order to become, right? And then they made this happen. talking with him when this came to us again, a resident brought it to us just like they did a little over a year, year and a half ago. And in conversation with Mr. Roach, this is the final one and they made it clear. And I clarified that at the event we had here a month or two ago. And this is where we're at. Any other questions?

I have a question for Tom. So we have the moratorium and this one is local law one. Is number one just the first one that we file?

No, that was a typo. It should be local law number two.

So this will be two?

This will be two, yeah. It was read correctly by the supervisor, but in my draft local law, I just had a placeholder there.

Okay, so it doesn't matter which one gets filed first.

Yeah, this will be local law number two.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, thank you for noticing that.

Susan, anything?

No, thank you for questioning this. I was encouraged with this.

No, I think this is a good thing. Jay? No, all good. John?

Yeah, all good. Tom?

Good. Council, anything else? No, that's it. Thanks.

Anything else from the public? Seeing nobody else approaching it, I do suggest that we keep this public hearing open, just like the other ones, until the regular meeting in September, one month, approximately a month from tonight. I'll make that a motion. Do I have a second? Motion made by myself and seconded by the deputy to keep this public hearing open until the next regular meeting in September. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Public hearing will remain open for next month. Next on the agenda is a discussion on a special use permit. for Mr. Bufamonte. Mr. Sanders is here to speak on his behalf. Hi, Peter. How are you? Yes, so I understand we had our site walk. Councilman Holmes, Councilwoman Jackson, I believe, and our engineer. I got their report, but what do you have to say?

Yeah, so I guess I'll just recap the project. So over here for commercially zoned property into a soil amendment facility where the applicant will bring landscaping material, branches, grass clippings, stuff like that that he accumulates as part of his business up to the site so that it can be commercially digested and turned into a workable product, whether that's compost, mulch, or some sort of additive in between. So again, we're here because the code does not define this use in the town of Dover. So the zoning code then provides a provision that allows you guys to issue the special use permit. So here tonight, we're just here to discuss the site walk. I received comment letters from the town engineer and town planner, which will go through, bolster our narrative to clean up any sort of ambiguities that need to be identified, and then move forward from there. And then one big key factor I wanted to bring up is, which we discussed at the site walk a bunch, was that this project is going to be reviewed heavily by DEC because they need a DEC permit to operate and construct this facility. So a lot of the technical details is going to be worked out during that process with DEC. And that application and paperwork is handled by you, the applicant, counsel? Yes, correct. And DEC is iffy on working with us right now because if it's not permitted in the town, then they don't want to go through the whole lengthy approval process of providing us comments. So it's kind of chicken and the egg. So we're just working to get to a point where you guys feel comfortable authorizing us to proceed with DEC.

So go ahead with the walk-around. You want to talk about that, or is it all good?

Yeah, so I would say last Thursday we met on site, opened up the gates toward the site. The board offered some comments, but I don't think there was anything substantial. Most of the stuff is addressed in the comment letters provided by the consultants, and we're just going to go through and answer all of those directly.

Tommy, you want to say anything?

I was real happy with what they're planning and the way it's going to go and the way you're going to handle it.

Yeah.

Susan.

Nope. We were in agreement with the consultation and talking to the professionals and town engineer and, and everybody's suggestions go forward with the next steps.

Okay. Mr. Burger, you want to say anything? Joe burger, our town engineer.

Everything's going smoothly with it. The site's perfect for this use. Only thing I want to point out tonight, it's in my comment letters, in the town, even though the use is not permitted, therefore it goes under the town board privy, the chapter 65 portion of it is something that falls under because we're disturbing more than half planner and we defer to the town attorney on this that there's a way that the town board can take on that review and at the same time that they're reviewing the special use permit that would make things simpler than having to split this between the town board and the planning board just for chapter 65 65 is erosion control erosion control which would be you know they will be doing a stormwater pollution prevention plan with a dec which is our version of that. So that would be the only thing I would mention, and if I could suggest to the town, if it's possible, and defer to attorney again, it would be best handled with the special use permit with the town board, especially since the DEC will be reviewing

council based on this i agree with the town engineer the town board's going to have basically the same consultants same planner same engineer that the planning board would have just for a chapter 65 review i think if the town board is the board with jurisdiction for the special permit they should just hear the whole application okay i'm fine with that it would just be easier for i agree separating between two boards and have too much overlap okay and to speak to one of peter's prior comments the board does have the ability to if they down the road get to the point where they're going to vote on the special permit to condition the special permit on the dc approval so that would alleviate his potential issue of D.C. doesn't want to review it because the town hasn't approved it. So the special permit, if the board got to the point where they were going to vote on this and passed it, we could have a condition that the permit is subject to the D.C. issuing its permit.

So no permit from D.C., no approval from us.

Building permit or any stuff like that.

It doesn't go to the way the planning board prefers. board has other jurisdictions outside of their control. They approve it subject to correcting of the other.

Subject to the other agencies.

And then what we would have to do is come back and prove that we got those permits before you do.

I think it would be just like a planning board approval. When we have conditional approvals, approvals that are needed are just brought to the town board. The supervisor acting like the planning board chair in that case would sign the site plan subject to the information being

So do we go to the planning board now with the findings and then come back to the board?

There's no planning board before this board.

So it's like, is it in front of us at this particular moment?

Yeah, they've submitted for a special permit.

So basically, they have to come back to you for another submission to answer the concerns that we had at the psych walk. We turned myself to the planner and any comments you may have tonight, they'll respond back to you and then Based on the response back to you on that, this board will decide whether that's sufficient enough to grant any special use for them that conditional on the DC approval.

That's the reason why I thought it was going to go to the planning board.

And then if the DC approval comes through, they just show it to the board.

And it's, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Good. Good with that. Tommy? I'm referring to my planning board experience here. We're good with that? Yes. So we can continue to process and we'll take on the Chapter 65? That's what you're asking? I'm recommending that. Okay. We good with that recommendation? Okay.

Thank you.

Yep. Thank you, Joe. That's what you wanted to hear, Peter, or no?

That's perfect. One thing I did want to bring up is that we discussed it, is that this application might need to be circulated to Metro North. I don't know if they were on our original circulation.

because of the close proximity.

Well, yeah, it runs through the property, right? So that they would have like any kind of stipulation.

Did you put that at the end of this? Didn't Aaron put that on the end?

Just because if it's going to be circulated, we might as well get it done at this meeting or the following day. Okay. So,

Yeah. Yeah, I would think Metro North would have a, you know, something to say. You know, if anything got close to their tracks or they had to do maintenance or anything like that, they're coming through your property.

If there's a blasting thing that needs to have to occur, then they don't permit it within 200 feet or something like that. So that's what we want to get from them if we even need to.

Right. Sounds good.

And there was a list of findings. What were some of the findings that need to be taken care of?

regarding, oh, that's special use permit findings? That is a specific section in the zoning code where we'll have to go through line by line and say how we're not, so one of the, an example is that it doesn't exceed noise or doesn't create some unpredictable or uncontrollable noise or odors. And so we have to document through our engineering and individual studies how that's not going to happen. And so that's gonna be in our expanded narrative. a line-by-line review of that.

Joe or Council, there's a question whether the Army Corps of Engineers need to be notified.

So this is what the county sent us back, and they're saying yes.

The county is saying yes.

Since there are federal wetlands on the site, it would be safe to send it to them because they are interested because there are, you're not disturbing them, but that's not the issue. It's the issue that they're on the site.

Right. The county even marked yes to county planning, county highway, county health, Army Corps of Engineers, and Metro North.

Correct. Yeah.

Okay.

Because they're on site, but they're actually on site, therefore, if you're going to stay away,

So with the additional circulation to Metro North, we will add the Army Corps.

Yeah. Okay. And just for the board's clarity,

DEC actually reviewed the site. We had them out there and confirm our stakeout of the wetlands. And so they took control of all the southern wetlands in the site. So that's essentially most of it is off site. There's a small portion up here that we're not going to be disturbing. But then Army Corps is this tiny bit along the railroad embankment. So where the water is drained and sat and cooled, that's now an Army Corps wetland. But DEC did not want it.

Okay, so that's why.

Yep.

Okay.

Which allows them to go right up to the edge of that since there's no buffer on the Federal Wetland.

So to keep it right and keep it safe, they'll be notified. All right. Thank you, Joe. All right. Anything else?

No further questions from me.

Tommy? No. Council? Good. John?

I'm good.

Jay? I'm good. Susan?

I'm good.

Anything on the paperwork end, Nicole? No. Okay. Cool. So we'll take care of what we spoke about tonight, whether it's us or whether it's you, and we'll make sure it gets done.

Sounds like a plan.

Okay. Cool. Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you. Thank you.

Have a nice night.

Yeah, you too.

Thank you.

See you guys.

Say hi to Mom and Dad, would you?

Will do.

With that, we'll move on to resolutions. Oh, reports. Sorry. I keep forgetting Julie's not here tonight, so I wasn't thinking of it. So I'll read the building report quick. Total permits were $55,000 for a total of $17,294. CCs issued $51,000. COs issued $7,000. Violations were $9,000. Respectfully submitted to the building department. Julie's not here tonight. She just wanted to remind everybody. You got one?

Well, just basically everything.

Go ahead, Deputy. If you've got a report, go ahead. I'll lay it to mine. Okay.

Go ahead.

I'm just going to report that with Julie. camp wrapped up another great season on camp all the all the thanks to dodie and paula and the entire staff there i know she was also going to call out dover day which i think everybody here is also going to be calling out dover day uh september 19th so everybody come out and support um the community i'm pretty sure that's pretty much what she was going to state

Yeah, I would add to it the concert series is going on too.

We've got one last week of the concert series this weekend. Come out and be a part of it. It's a great thing for the community.

That's been a good thing each and every weekend. We had another great weekend for a good turnout for that band. What I will add to that is I've made announcements a couple times throughout the summer, and I did it again the other night, both at the concerts – at the REC department office and here at the town hall, we have a bin for a great organization, the Center for Compassion, We are taking donations of perishable-type foods. We have a lot of people in Dover that need help, and this is what they do, and this is what we do. So I have to thank everybody that's brought stuff to the concerts every Saturday. We just emptied the bin again here tonight at Town Hall, so it's all much appreciated. It's all for good use, and it's helping our people.

So thank you for that. So thank you for the report, Jay. Anything else? No, all good.

Jay, Highway Superintendent, Jason Satori.

Jason Satori, Dovertown Highway Superintendent. We just finished our paving projects. They're, I'll say, 99.9% complete. We just finished Cart Road. We just put in the guide rails on Monday on Cart Road, so that is complete. We backed everything up with dirt and stuff for a while like that. lines for halls apple road to repaint those we should be getting price back here soon in the next couple of days our mowing and sign clearing is still being done if anybody out there sees any signs that are blocked by anything and they have a hard time saying please call us call either the town hall or most likely just call us at the town garage 832-9567 We're also fixing some catch basins that are broken and had some sink holes and replacing a bunch of metal pipes that have caused this. So we could be in your neighborhood fixing the pipe and stuff, so just be patient if we are there. Just give us a chance to get our stuff done or whatever. I'd like to thank my team for their hard work, my assistant Helena for the great job she's been doing. And I also still have two job openings, so if anybody out there looking for a job, please come by. We'll also be having a booth at the Dover day on the 19th, set up for applications to hand out and talk to people if they want a job also. Anything, any questions?

No, that sounds good. Cart road looks good.

It did, it came out really good. A lot of compliments and stuff. As long as everybody out there slows down, keeps the speed limit that they should. I'm trying to break the sound barrier.

The old guide rail should have been put in historical. Yeah. But I'm glad, well, it took time for getting that piece of property that we had to extend off of.

Yes, it took. So that's why. It took almost like a year and a half probably to get through the process to get that piece of property and stuff like that to move forward.

Any projects coming up that we need to notify for closure or anything?

We might have a project coming up here, Reagan's Mill Road and Berkshire Road where the Y is. We're planning on making that a T. We're going to get rid of the Y that's there. It was brought up by the county a couple years ago that that's a dangerous spot through there and stuff like that. So we've been looking at doing it. So hopefully here in another couple weeks here, we're going to determine whether we're going to do it this year or not. I think we will. We're going to make it a stop sign, a three-way stop sign, I think it is, that we're going to put there. It's going to be a T instead of a Y to try to control the traffic a little better so nobody gets run over. So if we do do it, people out there, please just be patient with us. It shouldn't take us too long. We're going to do almost everything in-house except for the paving part of it.

All right, thank you. Reports to the supervisor and the town board members. Councilman Holmes.

Met with Jason a couple times this month, went over the projects they've been doing. Guys are doing a good job weed whacking up Mill Street in the heat. Good job guys, thank you.

Councilman Maluta.

Town resident and Eagle Scout Ethan Viola has completed his veteran flagpole monument, and it's waiting on the plaque to be delivered, and then that will be installed on the big rock there. It looks outstanding. And I would say, great job, Ethan. The Boy Scouts of America can be proud of you. And then, yeah, the American Legion will also have a booth at Dover Day. We're looking for veterans. We're looking for numbers. Thank you.

Okay. Councilwoman Jackson.

We did the site walk this month and I attended a historical event at Preston Barn for the Dutchess County Trail Association Tavern Trail by Will Tatum. They also have the dramatic presentation from the Town of Topher Historical Society on September 23rd at Preston Barn. If anybody would like to attend, it's a dramatic presentation and refreshments. Tickets are free, but look on the website for it. On September 18th, School starts up again on September 8th. On September 18th, the football team, Dover Dragons, is going to have a Spack and Kale annual salute to service game, 7 p.m., on September 18th. On behalf of Dover football and the school administration, they're going to have a service men and women, police, EMT, firefighters, and first responders honored. They're also going to dedicate the field house to longtime coach and mentor Willard H. Kuhn. And the second dedication will be for Justice Abrams, Dover football alumni, Dover parent, grandfather, friend, and lifelong supporter of everything Dover Dragons. So if you can be there, be there. And please drive safely around the buses.

Thank you, Susan. Deputy Supervisor Murphy.

Small report this month on the schedule. Please, again, take a look at the schedule for planning board meetings. I believe we don't have one planned. We have one the 7th, 21st. We do have one for the 21st. Again, look for the agenda. It will be out shortly. Be a part of it. Dover day as I mentioned part of Julie's report the September 19th again, please come out and support the town the community Again, Susan said put be careful with school buses schools open and obviously September 11th, you know They remember just keep that always in mind 25th anniversary.

So Okay, thank you Mine we have we have a ceremony For the 25th anniversary of 9-11, on September 11th, the J.H. Ketchum Hose Company, along with some members of the town, are putting on a ceremony at the J.H.K. Park in Dover at the pavilion that is owned by the J.H. Ketchum Hose Company. The time will be 6.30. Again, this is something that we feel we should do. We have done it in the past, but we're hoping for a much better turnout.

That's why it hasn't been done each and every year. It's 6.30 at night.

6.30 at night, Friday, September 11th, the actual 25th anniversary. We'll have some speakers, be a short ceremony, you know, show our respect. remembering that day that nobody will ever forget. So that is that. We mentioned Dover Day on the 19th. Please come out. The information has been shared. We'll try to share it again leading up to it. Jason mentioned we have some highway openings. We have two positions there, and we are looking for members and volunteers for our trails committee. Now that we have settled and reached an agreement with the family in Dover for the right-of-way entry to Stone Church Preserve, We'd like to get our committee back going again. I met with myself and Councilman Holmes, met with Duchess Land today, with representatives and the leader of our volunteer group, David, talking about what needs to be done, what can now be done now that we have proper entrance into it, and expanding from there. We do need a membership, the one or two members that we did have. They're no longer members, so we need some help. So we're looking for people that are interested in that, interested in the Stone Church property, as well as the other properties that surround it, and reach out, give us an email, leave us a note, send us a letter, and we'll go from there, okay? That is that. What else did I do today? This month. I'll leave it at that. I'm not going to. Resolutions Resolution to authorize and approve consent agenda items I Be it resolved that the Town Board of the Town of Dover does hereby approve the following items for consideration and adoption. On August 26, 2026, Town Board regular meeting consent agenda. Authorize the payment of abstract number 8 of 2026 in the amount of $214,987.65. accept the minutes of the town board special meeting of july 15 2026 and the town board regular meeting of july 29 2026 approve the town clerk's report for july 2026 approve the town supervisor's financial report for july of 2026 except unanticipated revenue, authorized budget transfers, budget amendments, and payment of off-abstract purchase orders as prepared and submitted by the town's bookkeeper. Amend resolution number 123-2026, authorizing payment for Boyce Park restroom repair from Parks Capital Reserve. I'll entertain a motion. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Murphy, second by Maluta. Any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Authorize execution of stipulation of settlement. Whereas the town of Dover is a defendant in a pending Article 78 litigation filed in Dutchess County Supreme Court under index number 55746-2025 entitled Wenglowski v. The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Dover et al. and whereas... A stipulation of settlement has been negotiated between the parties to resolve this matter, which has been recommended by special counsel to the Town of Dover, Joseph A. Charbonneau, Esquire, be accepted by the Town of Dover. Now, therefore, be it resolved at the recommendation of special counsel, the town board of the town of Dover does hereby authorize the town supervisor, Richard C. Yeno, and special litigation counsel, Joseph A. Charbonneau, Esquire, to execute the stipulation of settlement on the above reference pending litigation, index number 55746-2025, in the Dutchess County Supreme Court on behalf of the town of Dover. Be it further resolved that the town supervisor and special litigation council are further authorized to sign any other required documents in connection with the settlement of this matter. I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Jackson, seconded by Murphy. Any discussion? Uh... This was a case brought to Supreme Court. Court ruled in the plaintiff's favor. Counsel, is that the proper language?

Yeah, there was a denial by the ZBA. The applicant exercises rights under New York State law by bringing Article 78. And after some meetings with the court, the stipulation of settlement was passed. was negotiated, basically granting certain reliefs to the applicant that he was seeking.

OK. Any other comments? No. Hearing no further comments, motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Carried. Resolution authorizing the closure of American Rescue Plan Act, ARPA, funds account and transfer any account balances. Whereas in 2021 and 2022, the Town of Dover received federal funds in the total amount of $855,792.30 pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act, ARPA. And whereas the entire amount of the ARPA funds were obligated by 12-31 of 2025 and expended by April 30th, 2026. And whereas the Town of Dover submitted the required annual reports to the U.S. Department of Treasury including the final report in April of 2026 showing all ARPA funds were spent in compliance with the ARPA requirements and closeout official request was filed on August 6th, 2026. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the town board of the town of Dover does hereby authorizes the town bookkeeper to file all necessary and required paperwork for the official state and local fiscal recovery funds and the U.S. Department of Treasury. And be it further resolved that the town bookkeeper is authorized to make all necessary accounting entries for the final interest earned in connection with the ARPA funds bank account. And be it further resolved that the town bookkeeper is authorized to transfer the interest earned from the ARPA funds account to the Town of Dover multi-fund account. I'll entertain a motion.

I'll move. Second.

Brought by the Deputy Murphy, seconded by Councilman Maluta, discussion. It got a lot of work done in this town. It got a lot of work done, a lot of things that the taxpayers didn't have to absorb through our budget. We all know the ARPA money was government money. It came from the taxpayers. But that money was spent, and that money did not affect our budget. other than what was already planned and made up differences. We spent every penny and put it all back into the town, highway, rec, town hall, several other projects, the track, the workout equipment. Whatever it was able to be done for to save the taxpayer, that's where we put it.

With that, all in favor?

Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Authorize the closure of American Rescue Plan Act funds bank account. whereas the town of dover bookkeeper has recommended that the town of dover american rescue plan act arpa funds account at m t bank be closed and whereas the town of dover bookkeeper has also recommended that the above account be removed from treasury center and remote check deposit Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Town Board of the Town of Dover does hereby authorize the Town Supervisor, Richard C. Yeno, to sign a letter to M&T Bank requesting that the Town of Dover American Rescue Plan Act Fund account be closed and this account be removed from the Treasury Center and remote check deposit. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Brought by Maluta, seconded by Jackson. Any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Resolution appointing a planning board chairman. Whereas the town of Dover planning board currently has a vacancy for a planning board chairperson. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the town board of the town of Dover hereby appoints Michael Villano as chairman to the town of Dover planning board effective September 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026. And be it further resolved that the town board of the town of Dover acknowledges that Valerie LaRobadier was acting chairperson of the town of Dover planning board for the month of August 2026. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Brought by Holmes, seconded by Murphy, discussion. This is to fill former Chair Cortine's seat. He did have one or two spike interest. We've talked with board members. I talked with certain board members, as well as planning board members and the secretary. And I present this resolution feeling that this is the best choice to you, the board members.

No doubt. Obviously, I've been a part with Mike on the board. Tommy, I think you too. Great choice.

Mike is the veteran on the board. He has the most seniority.

Most seniority. Yep. So we're in good hands for the next three months. Mike.

Yeah, abstain, I believe. We'll ask him.

So... Again, I think that's the right choice. The other people that did show some interest were members as well, but this was the choice that the people that I spoke with picked, and that's the way I presented this resolution. Any other comment? Go ahead, Tom.

Only for three months?

He has to be reappointed at the organizational meeting for the organizational meeting in July. OK, this is this is the finish the year that was left vacant on upon the resignation last month. And then January in a reorg meeting. We reappoint the chairman or chairwoman. Any other comments. OK. Yes, thank you. OK. Motion made and seconded. No further discussion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Thank you and congratulations, Mike. I'm a little out of order here. Did I miss one?

Resolution authorizing to increase the town clerk petty cash fund.

Whereas the town of Dover currently maintains a petty cash funding amount of $250 and whereas additional cash is needed during periods of increased hunting license sales to ensure sufficient funds are available to make change for customers. Now therefore be it resolved that the town board of the town of Dover hereby authorizes an increase in the petty cash fund from 250 to 450 to accommodate increased cash transactions during busy hunting license sales periods. I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second. Brought by Jackson, seconded by Holmes. Any discussion? It's needed.

Yeah, it's needed.

Okay. Hearing no further discussion, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried. Council, seeing how Councilman Maluta is commander of the Legion, should he abstain from this or recuse?

Yeah, he could abstain from this vote. Okay.

Thank you. Award to request for proposals RFP for HVAC installation at the American Legion Hall. Whereas the town of Dover advertised for request for proposals, RFPs, for HVAC installation at the American Legion Hall, and whereas proposals were received, opened, and reviewed, now therefore be it resolved that the town board of the town of Dover does hereby award the proposal of Southeast Mechanical Corporation of Brewster, New York, in the amount of $9,115. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Brought by Murphy, seconded by Jackson. Discussion? Madam Clerk, do you want to give any details? This was a grant, correct?

The units will be partially funded by the grant, and this specific vendor, he came in the lowest, but also was the only one to show up to the site visit, had communication back and forth the whole time, and I checked references and has really good references as well.

Cool. Do we have the portion of the grant money? No, it's reimbursed.

Once we have $2,000 from that, that will be reimbursed towards the unit.

To the whole portion. Got it. Okay. Any further?

They've done other work in the town over the years. Their name is familiar. Okay.

Hearing no further discussion, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Four ayes, one abstain. Resolutions passed. Let me just double check. That was it, right, Nicole? That was the last one?

That's all I have.

I'm just double checking. They were a little out of order. I put them together a little out of order. Sorry. All good. At this point in time, are there any public comments? Are there any comments or questions from the public? Please approach the podium. Seeing nobody approaching the podium, upcoming meetings. Wednesday, September 30th, 2026, we will be filing and distributing the tentative budget. It's that time of year, everybody. And then we will be going to a month Starting in October. So the first meeting in October will be the 14th. That will be discussing the tentative budget. The old words of workshop. Okay? Next Wednesday, I'll be meeting myself and our bookkeeper. We'll be meeting with the department heads. I open that morning up myself, Highway Superintendent Satori, Murphy, you may try to make it. And we're gonna, it'll be a day. Sharpen your pencils. Yes. Oh, yes, we can have a short discussion. So next weekend, or next week, I mean, department head meetings, budget process starts. Jason, looking forward to it. What the zoning and planning secretary just brought to my attention was we finally did get, yesterday maybe, a comment back from the county on the new zoning. So we're gonna hold off. We're gonna let everybody review what the committee, review what the county sent back, see if there's any suggested changes, correct? Or verbiage in any way? All right, so we probably won't entertain this again until the last meeting, the second meeting in October. Right? We'll discuss it, see if it's ready. September's meeting, we'll set a public hearing. Tom, maybe?

Yeah. Seeing where we're at? I think, yeah, either that meeting or the first October meeting, set it. Okay. We'll see where we're at with the committee. Yep.

Okay. Marilyn, does that sound good? Committee will be meeting probably once next month. There we go. Okay. Anything else? Board members, anything else? Okay. At this point I'll make a motion to go into an executive session to discuss litigation and personnel issues and we will not be returning to the desk. Do I have a second?

Second.

Motion made by myself and seconded by Deputy Supervisor Murphy to go into an executive session to discuss a litigation case and personnel and not return to the dais. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried. We're in executive session. Have a good night. Be well and be safe.

Thank you. God bless everybody.